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You can contact me privately through this site, but it has been many years since I have done so and I am not sure how you do it. Somebody on the site will know.

Also, my genealogy is all packed away and I will have to get it out and refresh my memory. I only found out about John Menzies through researching and what information my grandmother could remember about him. After he was shipped off to Canada as a small boy, he was never seen or heard of again.

What would you like to know?

Hi, thanks for your post. 

My grandmother was the daughter of John Menzies.  You mentioned that your wife is a direct descendant of "MS Menzies".  Who is "MS Menzies" and where does he/she fit in to the family?

Regards
Mollydog     

Thanks Tom

It's all to do with a Canadian WW1 record in which John Menzie(s) lists his next of kin as Marion Menzie of Kirkcaldy, Scotland.  I am trying to ascertain whether it is my John Menzies and if it is, I know for a definite fact that his next of kin lived in Banknock, Stirlingshire at that time, so I was hoping there could be a place around that area called a similar name.

Regards
Mollydog

I know Kirkcaldy is in Fife, but is there any chance there may be (or may have been) a place in Stirlingshire or around Glasgow with that name or like name?

Regards
Mollydog

Thank you to everyone, yes Isabella Warden was John Menzies second wife.  they married in 1872, two months after his first wife, Marion Lumsden died.  On their marriage certificate Isabella is listed as a spinster, domestic servant and living in Springburn, Maryhill.  I had the same thought that William may have been her son, but my birth searches of a William Warden born around 1867 come up with nothing.  My initial thoughts were that William was an illigitimate, because why would a spinster marry a man with nine children.  There was a year space before and after John jnr for William to be born (1866 and 1868).  John jnr was listed as 14 on the 1881 census, but he would not have been 14 until 18 July, so I was thinking that William may have been born in 1866 and was already 14.

Thanks Tom for the link explaining Barony.  It will certainly be helpful to keep this in mind for my research.

Anyway, thanks again but any more suggestions would be very much appreciated.

Regards
Mollydog